CEO Dave Witte is bringing his company to Akron, where he says it will employ billions of workers to produce a key ingredient used to make rubber — green, sustainable rubber, no less. Not billions of ...

SKOKIE, Ill.—In what is being touted as a groundbreaking partnership that ultimately could lead to an alternative source of natural rubber, Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. and LanzaTech NZ Inc. will team up to ...

Natural rubber production is expected to be below demand for the fifth year in a row in 2025. According to the Association of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – With disease and high demand posing threats to the world’s primary natural rubber supply in Southeast Asia, scientists are working to ramp up the U.S. rubber market by advancing ...

Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of ...

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS will be presenting its comprehensive range of additives and solutions for the tire industry at Tire Technology Expo 2024 in Hanover, Germany. From March 19 to 21, ...

Rubber is a natural substance deriving from trees, but to get it into its useful form, treatment in the form of a process called vulcanization must occur. Vulcanization cures rubber via the method of ...

HANOI, Vietnam, Dec. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As Vietnam's rubber and plastic products sector surges with 24.9% annual growth in 2024 and tire production exceeding 30 million units annually-90% ...